Gordon Brown Quotes

The demand for individual freedom leads us to different realms, and it enables us to participate in social events.

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

Any individual right or freedom is properly extended only to those who accept the fundamental rules of democracy. How … could any society survive which deliberately nursed its own avowed and irreconcilable assassin, and freely exposed its heart to his knife.

Freedom Party International believes that the purpose of government is to protect every individual's fundamental freedoms, not to restrict them.

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

Freedom of expression is the foundation of a civil society …. This will come.

England has been called, with great felicity of conception, 'the land of liberty and good sense.' We have preserved many of the advantages of a free people, which the nations of the Continent have long since lost.

The people are not defending political interests. They are defending the idea of living in a civilized country.

Freedom of opinion is a valuable asset in a democracy.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

In the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty.

Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

We are... living in a free society without the faith that built that society - and without the conviction and dedication needed to sustain it... We still have the cathedral of freedom but how long will it last without the faith?

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.

They have rights who dare maintain them.

As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is the curious sense which comes to us from time to time, that we belong to the whole, that a certain basic well being can never be taken away from us whatever the turn of fortune.

But our society - unlike most in the world - presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual, not government, the keeper of his tastes, beliefs, and ideas. That is the philosophy of the First Amendment; and it is this article of faith that sets us apart from most nations in the world.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.